The Dao of Silk: Traditions

In the world of decorative knotting, there are 2 major schools:
sailor's fancywork and Asian knotting. Sailor's fancywork grew
out of long ship voyages and an abundance of cordage, and is
practiced world-wide. Asian knotting was a basic household
skill that evolved into craft and then art, most likely at the
hands of imperial court artisans. Much as the cloistered
Victorian ladies took up lacemaking with knots (macramé)
and developed it to serve a host of new applications, so I
imagine court ladies in dynastic China, Japan and Korea proving
their skills in embroidery, weaving and silk knotting.

These days, Chinese knotting is all about the knots themselves.
The cord tends to be silk-like nylon or rayon, only occasionally
real silk. Of course, there were no nylon extruding cord
weaving mills in the days of yore. Images of historical
artifacts with cord, knots and tassels reveal a cord that is
most likely a small woven tube or a fairly straightforward
braid.

In Korea, for the living national treasures that hold the
knowledge and skills for the cultural art of knotting, knotting
(maedup) and braiding (dahoe or
tahoe) are inseparable components of one craft.

In Japan, there are several cultural expressions that are often
knotted. Braiding (kumihimo) has several schools
devoted to that art alone. Gift cards most often bear
mizuhiki (paper cords that are usually knotted). Tea
bags would be closed by a single but elaborate knot tied in a
stiff braided cord. Obis may be supplemented with a
braided cord tied with a simple knot. The obi itself is usually
tied with an elaborate knot. The furoshiki tradition
of wrapping items in simple (if exquisitely embellished) squares
of cloth is also a means of transporting items by modifying that
square into carrying vessels with simple knots.

Similar to the Japanese furoshiki is the traditional Korean
bojagi or pojagi, wrapping cloth.
Interestingly, it is the stained glass/pieced jogakbo
or chogak po that evolved from peasant traditions of
recycling useable scraps of fabric which provides the current
classic image of a bojagi instead of embroidered whole cloth as
one might find in a royal household.

I have tried to research Chinese wrapping cloths but have
either not found the correct key words, or perhaps there are
none. Certainly, simple squares of cloth were used to wrap
precious objects, food, etc. and tied into bundles to carry
objects. But, perhaps, just as in English there is no
name for "putting all your worldly treasures in a
handkerchief, tying them to a stick and running away" (or is
there?!?), there is no formal name or term for wrapping cloths
in Chinese.

I asked my dad (OK, a retired mathematician is not exactly the
most traditionally/culturally aware specimen to be asking such
things, but these are the resources available to me) and he
suggested the term "bao fu" (wrap lift/carry).